SII’s 2024 Strategy: Reducing Tax Evasion, Combating Fraud, and Organized Crime in Chile

• The SII focused on reducing VAT evasion and combating fraud, tax crimes, and organized crime in 2024.
• Efforts targeted high-impact sectors like business groups, multinationals, and high-net-worth taxpayers.
• Large companies, representing 67.56 percent of revenue, received 33.35 percent of audit hours despite being only 0.42 percent of taxpayers.
• Emphasis was placed on informal trade, salmon theft, and vehicle theft networks.
• The SII’s success is attributed to 5,000 employees working nationwide.
• In 2025, Director Javier Etcheberry highlighted the importance of these strategies for economic growth and modernization.
• The SII collaborated with public and private entities to ensure tax compliance and combat corruption and organized crime.
• A commission was created to fight tax evasion, smuggling, and related crimes, involving various national agencies.
• The SII worked with security and financial authorities to enhance crime and tax crime sanctions.
• The SII established an office in October 2024 to address organized crime and related tax offenses.

Source: sii.cl

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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